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Defense, for manpower and reserve affairs; that the role of the Air Reserve Forces Policy Committee would be expanded to enable it to comment upon major policy matters directly affecting the reserve components of the Air Force; that an Office of Air Force Reserve would be created, led by the Chief of Air Force Reserve, a reservist nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate; that the Secretary of the Air Force was responsible to provide the personnel, equipment, facilities, and other general logistic support necessary to enable Air Force Reserve units and individuals to satisfy their training and mobilization requirements; and that there be a Selected Reserve, that is, a Ready Reserve consisting of units and individuals, whose strength would be mandated annually by Congress. Addressing the issue that had started it all, the law mandated that there be units in both components, thereby precluding any merger of the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard.
231:(MAP), Tennessee, reservists conducted the first postwar Air Reserve training flight in an airplane, probably a C-47, borrowed from the 4th Ferrying Group. By the end of 1946, the command had organized Air Reserve training detachments at seventy bases and airfields. However, limited budgets for the active Army Air Corps meant even less for Reserve Training and a lack of available aircraft (especially the single-seat P-51) led to severe constraints on the Reserve program with training being conducted in World War II training aircraft, which cost much less to operate than single-seat fighter planes. On 21 February 1947, Headquarters Army Air Forces informed ADC to eliminate twenty-nine reserve training detachments as quickly as possible. The program's contractions caused by the fiscal year 1947 budget reductions made it even more evident that there would never be enough units to accommodate all Air Force Reservists who wished to be trained.
2159:, in June, implying that he would take no action on the status of Berlin until after their meeting. The June meeting between president Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev did not go well and intensified the tension over West Berlin. On 25 July, President Kennedy went to the nation with his program on the Berlin crisis. He told the people that the U.S. right to be in West Berlin and its commitment to the city had to be defended if the Soviets attempted to curtail them unilaterally. Among other actions announced, Kennedy stated that he initially intended to recall a number of Air Force Reserve air transport squadrons and Air National Guard tactical fighter squadrons, but that he would call others if needed. Congress gave the president the requested powers on 1 August 1961, authorizing him to order reserve units and individual reservists involuntarily to active duty for not more than twelve consecutive months.
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squadron. At each base, the group was composed of a material squadron, a troop carrier squadron, a tactical hospital or dispensary, and a combat support squadron. Each troop carrier wing consisted of 3 or 4 of these groups. By doing so, ConAC could facilitate the mobilization of either aircraft and aircrews alone, aircraft and minimum support personnel (one troop carrier group), or the entire troop carrier wing. This also gave ConAC the flexibility to expand each Wing by attaching additional squadrons, if necessary from other
Reserve wings to the deployable groups for deployments. Some bases consisted of two or possibly three groups due to the fact that additional bases for these groups had not been located, so they were co-located on a single base until in the future a separate base could be obtained by ConAC.
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Nations. Although this definitely relieved the crisis, the president decided that United States ships would stay on station in the "Quarantine Zone" and that the recalled Air Force
Reserve units would remain on active duty pending satisfactory United Nations arrangements. Not until 20 November, therefore, did president Kennedy announce that he was lifting the quarantine and that the mobilized air reserve units would be released before Christmas. On 22 November the Air Force directed TAC to release the reserve units at midnight, 28 November. Some personnel voluntarily remained on active duty an additional 30 days, and the last individual reservists were relieved from active service on 29 December.
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Volunteer Air Reserve training program for assignment outside the command. Members of the command's corollary units and its mobilization augmentees and designees could be called up to fill the command's authorized vacancies. The mobilization augmentees of other commands could be recalled to fill any other vacancy in the Air Force. When feasible, corollary unit members were to be used to fill vacancies in their parent units. Members of the Volunteer Air Reserve could be recalled to fill a ConAC vacancy when Organized Air Reserve sources were unavailable, but no member of an organized reserve unit at a flying center was to be individually recalled.
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238:, much of the statutory authority upon which it operated still stemmed from various laws pertaining to the U.S. Army. Under criticism for the inadequacy of its Air Force Reserve program, the new United States Air Force began to revise it in 1948. Contrary to the tendency of the Army Air Forces to orient the Reserve program as an individual augmentation force, it was decided that the Air Force's mobilization requirements called for organized units, both for training and combat. It recommended that all Air Force Reservists be organized into tactical or training units to facilitate administration and training.
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3294:(MATS) replaced the Tactical Air Command as the gaining command for Air Force Reserve C-124 units in July 1963, its commander informed ConAC that it was planning to use the reserve units to conduct airlift missions worldwide. The latter half of 1963 became a period of unprogrammed exercise participation for MATS as the entire defense establishment responded to a Secretary of Defense directive to conduct a series of strategic mobility exercises. To sustain some degree of its normal transpacific cargo capability while it was thus engaged, MATS arranged through ConAC for the Air Force Reserve's
3530:(AFRES). The new organization would be a separate operating agency established as a field extension of the Office of Air Force Reserve and would be commanded by another reserve major general recalled to active duty for the purpose. General Marchbanks and his reserve advisers did not want to retain the large Regular Air Force Continental Air Command as a link in the new Air Force Reserve chain of command. McConnell accepted the recommendation, and the proposal was endorsed by the Air Reserve Forces Policy Committee on 18 March and approved shortly thereafter by Secretary of the Air Force
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203:(ADC) at each training location. They were located at both Army Airfields and civil airports where the Air Force retained partial jurisdiction after turning over the facility to the civil community after the end of World War II. ADC was given the air reserve mission as the fundamental mission of the command was the air defense of the Continental United States, and the reservists were considered as reinforcements for that mission; however the reserve program was a national endeavor and the Army Air Forces required both
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undetermined points all over the United States. The operation was to begin the next morning, when specific requirements and destinations would be furnished, and it would be completed by Monday, 15 October. Talking around a classified subject over an open telephone line restricted the flow of information, but, assured by
Headquarters TAC that the mission was valid and vital, Lieutenant Colonel W. L. Spencer, Chief of the ConAC Current Operations Division, committed the Air Force Reserve troop carrier force.
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what hope there was now rested with
Khrushchev's revising his course within the next few hours. The official recall message came in from Headquarters USAF at 02:23 28 October. The message ordered one C-123 Provider and seven C-119 Flying Boxcar troop carrier wings along with six aerial port squadrons to extended active duty at 09:00 28 October 1962 for no more than twelve consecutive months. The mobilized Air Force Reserve units brought 14,220 people and 422 aircraft on active duty on 28 October.
135:, ConAC provided the necessary augmentation to the regular Air Force while it rebuilt itself under wartime conditions. Later, during the 1950s, it was a training force for reservists with no prior military service. ConAC provided peacetime airlift missions for the Air Force. It was mobilized twice in 1961 and 1962 by president Kennedy for the Berlin and Cuban Missile Crisis. Lastly, it was used by president Lyndon B. Johnson for airlift operations into the Dominican Republic and South Vietnam.
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while rapidly expanding its manpower base, the Air Force needed the reservists to fill critical skill shortages and provide cadre for new units in the expanding force. Even though restricted to the
Organized Air Reserve, the involuntary recall of individuals in February and March 1951 was the heaviest of the war. ConAC recalled slightly more than 7,000 reservists in both February and March. About 4,000 were recalled in April, and the number leveled off thereafter at a slightly lower figure.
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training program to accommodate all reservists not fitted into one of the other three programs. Headquarters USAF and the major commands were to conduct the corollary unit and mobilization assignment programs while ConAC would handle the rest. ConAC was to operate 23 centers to train 25 combat wings. The Air Force
Reserve program was to become effective on 1 July 1949 would include twenty troop carrier wings equipped with C-47s or C-46s and five light bombardment wings flying B-26s.
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Reserve aircrews flew approximately 1,850 missions and 16,900 hours in Operation POWER PACK, as the emergency airlift was called. About 185 of the missions were flown into the island itself. With the Air Force Reserve C-124 units already heavily committed in support of Southeast Asia operations, the C-119 units bore the primary burden of the Air Reserve's participation in the POWER PACK operation, although there were a few C-123 and C-124 missions as well.
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that the war in
Vietnam, in which the United States merely sought to stabilize the political division of North and South Vietnam as it had existed in 1962, justified the dramatic act of mobilizing reserve forces. He accepted the need to fight the war, but he wanted to prosecute it as quietly as possible, not attracting too much attention at home and risk jeopardizing his domestic programs. He also wanted to avoid drawing the
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component of the Air Forces, ready for mobilization and active duty at the time, places, and in the numbers indicated by the needs of national security. Planning for reserve forces took second place, in any event, to the officials' efforts to win the separation of the air forces from the Army. Their single firm conviction about the nature of the reserve program was that it must provide opportunities for pilots to fly.
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1950, sought communications and electronic officers, radar officers and specialists, telephone and radio operators and maintenance men, cryptographer operators and technicians, and wiremen and cablemen. Additional calls followed, and by 20 July ConAC had a consolidated recall requirement for almost 50,000 reservists. They included 2,000 pilots, 1,900 specialized observers, 4,326 nonrated officers, and 41,536 airmen.
2369:. Having watched the president's telecast the night before, reserve troop carrier wing officials were not surprised on 16:00 23 October when Headquarters ConAC directed them to activate their command posts and operate them around the clock, seven days a week. The command posts did not have to be elaborate, but someone had to be on duty at all times who was in immediate contact with key personnel of the wing.
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Air Force), the Air National Guard of the United States, the Air National Guard when it was in the service of the United States, and the U.S. Air Force Reserve. The Air Force of the United States was to have an authorized strength of not more than seventy groups with separate Air Force squadrons, reserve groups, and whatever supporting and auxiliary and reserve units as might be required.
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2006:, North Carolina, in the first reserve paradrop during a joint Army/Air Force exercise. Then, at the suggestion of the Tactical Air Command, five of the Air Force Reserve troop carrier wings culminated their 1956 active duty training by participating in the joint exercise Operation PINE CONE. This was the first large-scale exercise to combine Air Force Reserve and active forces.
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Force Reserve and the Air National Guard, the only trained augmentation resource available. Therefore, discounting a handful of volunteers, the Air Force's individual replacements to satisfy the demands of the first phase of the Korean War as well as the expansion requirements came from reserve units by using them as "filler" augmentees along with their equipment and aircraft.
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some time to come. He also wanted to maintain strong Army forces in strategic reserve in the United States ready to deploy to Europe or any other threatened area. The Air Force released the 435th and 442d Troop Carrier Wings from active military service on 27 August 1962. President Kennedy, who had so urgently needed their numbers and presence a year earlier saluted them:
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However, this was not possible as Air National Guard forces in peacetime were under the control of the Fifty State Governors. Congressional hearings throughout the 1960s on merging the Army National Guard and reserve forces put this issue into the political spotlight and a battle began between McNamara and congressional leaders who opposed the necessary legislation.
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Committee to consider it because he did not believe that merger could occur unless reservists themselves advocated it. Thus, while still failing to accept the inadvisability of raising the issue of merging the two air reserve components, General LeMay had at least become wise enough to realize that there could be no merger without the cooperation of reserve leaders.
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mobilization evoked a flurry of protest from the reservists and from congressmen representing the states in which the units were located. Reserve unit members believed the Air Force had promised that they would serve together upon mobilization-indeed recruiters of the period had at least implied if not actually asserted as much.
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August. However, due to the recalls caused by Korea, the Air Force Reserve had no aircraft, and none would be available until July 1952. Upon mobilization in 1950 and 1951, Air Force Reserve units remaining intact had kept their aircraft, while aircraft belonging to the mobilized "filler" units had been redistributed.
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continuation academic and flying training to the navigators. As enrollment in the program reached 5,000 annually, ConAC established navigator replacement training squadrons at the site of each Air Force Reserve wing. Reservists took their monthly inactive duty training at these sites. The program initially employed
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had made administration of the recall difficult. Moreover, unable to call upon younger men who had never served, the nation had to send World War I1 veterans back to war. The Department of Defense requested universal military training legislation to provide the military services with a source of nonveterans.
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In 1967, Public Law 90-168 was passed by Congress on 20 February. The purpose of the legislation was to guarantee in law a structure for each of the reserve components. With respect to the Air Force (and containing comparable provisions applicable to the Army), the law provided that there would be a
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dispatched United States Marines and Army soldiers to the island to protect American citizens. To support this force, as well as provide emergency relief supplies to the islanders, the United States conducted an emergency airlift into the island. Participating voluntarily between 30 April and 5 July,
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In December 1961, President Kennedy wanted to return all the recalled reservists to inactive status as soon as possible without having to call up others to replace them. At the same time, he thought it advisable to maintain the strength of the US. Army in Europe at essentially the existing level for
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Shortly thereafter, the crisis in West Berlin escalated. Despite legal and psychological obstacles, thousands of East Berliners were streaming daily into West Berlin, seeking freedom in the West and, in the process, draining the depressed economy of East Germany. The communists responded on 13 August
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Air Defense Command concluded that the number of Air Reserve Forces fighter-bomber units then at hand greatly exceeded the commands' requirements for air defense augmentation. It was recommended that the entire Air Reserve Forces air defense fighter program be given to the Air National Guard and the
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Influenced by the difficulties being created by the concurrent mobilization, the policies required that each service publish priorities for recall. As military conditions permitted, a reservist ordered to active federal service was to be allowed at least thirty days from the time he was alerted until
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In its final form, the new law appeared to most persons and organizations interested in reserve matters, the National Guard Association excepted, as a first concrete step in curing the ills of the national reserve program. It codified many existing laws, regulations, and practices; it gave the combat
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In response, the Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter, stated that the Chief of Staff had to have absolute flexibility to employ Air Reserve Forces units and individuals in the best interests of national defense. Moreover, he noted that Public Law 599, under whose authority all mobilization
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In 1944, the National Guard Association of the United States compelled the Army Air Forces to plan for a significant separate Air National Guard reserve force separate from the observation units of the prewar National Guard units controlled by the Army. As the Army Air Forces demobilized in 1945 and
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General John P. McConnell (second from left), Air Force Chief of Staff. presides over ceremonies at Robins AFB, Georgia, on 31 July 1968, marking the retirement of Lt. Gen. Henry Viccellio (left) as the last commander of the Continental Air Command on that day, the discontinuation of the Command and
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In the process of training themselves to full operational readiness in their unit equipment, the C-124 units produced a by-product of available aircraft space. The Air Force commonly capitalized on this potential by arranging through ConAC for the reserve units to carry passengers and cargo on their
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The Air Force Reserve did absolutely all that was asked of it between 13 October and 29 December 1962. It augmented the active force in assembling materiel in the southeastern comer of the country. When the President thought he might need an invasion force and the Department of Defense mobilized Air
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Air Force Reserve airlift support of the Tactical Air Command continued at an exceptionally high rate. ConAC increased its normal daily aircraft support to TAC from ten to twenty-five. Between 20 and 28 October, Air Force Reserve C-l19s, C-l23s, and C-124s delivered cargo and military personnel into
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Continental Air Command was responsible to conduct the active duty as well as the inactive duty training of the Air Reserve Forces units. Nevertheless, the gaining commands furnished the tactical doctrine and operating procedures and assistance in preparing training objectives and plans. Active duty
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during World War TI, had served on several of the Air Defense Command's early reserve boards, and had been the first chairman of the Air Staff Committee on Reserve. Submitting a long-range plan for the Reserve Forces of the United States Air Force on 27 July. General Smith asserted that its adoption
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By this time, it was obvious that the need for men could not be satisfied by the voluntary recall which had produced only rated officers. Therefore, by 19 July, President Truman had authorized involuntary recall of reservists for one year. ConAC directed its numbered air forces to select individuals
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With regards to Air Defense Command and Tactical Air Command, ConAC faced severe issues as the tactical air support mission was fundamentally different from the air defense mission. Units assigned to ConAC were dual-trained and in case of war, were expected to revert to their primary roles after the
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To clarify the situation and provide both services sounder legal bases from which to operate, Congress passed the Army and Air Force Authorization Act of 1949 which became law on 10 July 1950. The law stipulated that the Air Force of the United States would consist of the U.S. Air Force (the Regular
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squadrons. On 1 October 1961, as their gaining command, the Tactical Air Command mobilized the C-124 units, which had been alerted on 1 September and the Air Reserve Records Center recalled 2,666 filler personnel for the mobilized Reserve and Guard units. In all, 5,613 Air Force Reservists came on
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During April 1957, Operation SWIFT LIFT reserve troop carrier units used inactive duty training periods to airlift personnel and cargo for the Tactical Air Command. Each Air Force Reserve troop carrier squadron provided one aircraft with crew in continuous support of the requirement. In addition to
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In addition to providing units to augment the active force for limited or full-scale war, by mid- 1955 the Air Force Reserve had a requirement to provide the Air Force with trained individuals in wartime to augment and replace the attrition in the active force. These personnel were to be recruited,
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It is my desire, therefore, that within budget limits and consistent with the policy of attaining and maintaining maximum combat capability within the 137 wing force, all pertinent Air Staff actions be directed specifically toward: fully equipping Reserve units with aircraft capable of carrying out
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The thirteen trips were flown in February and March. In mid-April 1965 MATS again requested assistance, this time for all the C-124s that the Air Force Reserve could offer, and reserve crews flew thirty more flights into Tan Son Nhut AB by the end of June 1965. Although not seeming like much, the
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into the war. Moreover, recalling reservists' complaints of inactivity following the Berlin mobilization of 1961, he was reluctant to recall reservists without the assurance that their employment would significantly affect the course of the war, an assurance no official in his administration could
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The original Table of Organization for each Wing was a wing headquarters, a troop carrier group, an Air Base Group, a maintenance and supply group, and a medical group. In 1957, the troop carrier group and maintenance and supply groups were inactivated, with their squadrons reassigned directly to
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in Cuba. Ordering daily reconnaissance flights over the island, President Kennedy and his advisers met regularly to consider military options while he mustered diplomatic support around the world. On the evening of 22 October, Kennedy went on television explaining to the nation and the world that
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accepted renewed standby mobilization authority from Congress. The second joint resolution within fourteen months authorized the president to mobilize any unit or member of the Ready Reserve for no more than twelve consecutive months. The resolution gave the administration the same options as the
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Although not recalled to extended active duty, about one hundred reservists from the Air Force Reserve's five Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadrons voluntarily came on active duty to provide rescue coverage for deployment of the jet fighters from the mobilized Air National Guard units to Europe.
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During the first half of 1955, the Air Force began detaching Air Force Reserve squadrons from their parent wing locations to separate sites. The concept offered several advantages: communities were more likely to accept the smaller squadrons than the large wings; separate squadron operations would
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In the summer of 1956 when it conducted an independent major airlift. In Operation SIXTEEN TON twelve Air Force Reserve troop carrier wings used their annual active duty training time to move U.S. Coast Guard equipment to the Caribbean. The reserve crews flew 164 missions on which they transported
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The Standby Reserve consisted of units or members both of the reserve components, other than members in the Retired Reserve, liable for active duty only in time of war or a national emergency declared by Congress or when otherwise authorized by law. Except in time of war, no unit or member of the
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Reflecting the attitude of most reservists, by 1951 Congress and the Department of Defense were dissatisfied with the disorder and inequities that had marked the recall of reservists to active military service as a result of the Korean War. Incomplete and outdated records of individual reservists
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When the Korean War broke out, the Air Force's immediate need was for individuals to raise active force units to their authorized wartime strengths. National policy required preparedness for a conflict in Europe, and the Air Force hesitated to withdraw manpower from the organized units of the Air
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The United States did not mobilize reservists for use in Southeast Asia before 1968, and then it mobilized relatively few, because Lyndon B. Johnson, then President of the United States, did not wish to do so. His reasons for not mobilizing reserve forces were many. Primarily, he did not believe
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This was the flashpoint of the crisis. At the White House, President Kennedy ordered the twenty-four troop carrier squadrons of the Air Force Reserve to active duty. They would be necessary for an invasion of the island, which was in advanced planning stages. Kennedy had not abandoned hope, but
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On 25 August with the Wall acquiring greater permanence as each day passed and amid rumors that the Soviets were about to resume atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons which had been halted in 1958, President Kennedy approved Defense Department plans to order Army, Navy, and Air Force Reserve and
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and 24 Air Force Reserve tactical wings, 6 Air Force Reserve flying training wings, and almost 1,300 Air Force Reserve nonflying units. This structure would accommodate 250,000 members and provide flying and combat crew training for 38,000 in wing and squadron aircraft. The plan was approved on 9
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For nearly a month after American troops went into Korea, the Air Force strove to meet burgeoning personnel requirements with volunteers, offering its reservists and guardsmen opportunities for either enlistment or voluntary recall to active duty. The Air Force's first voluntary recall on 30 June
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The reservists routinely trained in the troop carrier role, participated in several joint training exercises, and discharged the bulk of Tactical Air Command's troop-carrying responsibilities to other agencies. Among the major joint training exercises in which the units participated were Exercise
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The Air Force Reserve program for fiscal year 1950 consisted of four distinct parts: the Air Force Reserve training centers now would support reserve combat wings, individual mobilization assignments, a new program of corollary units integrated with active force units, and a Volunteer Air Reserve
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for a plan to phase the Air Force Reserve into the Air National Guard. One of the criteria posited for the study of options to achieve a single Air Reserve was that the ultimate management structure provide the Chief of Staff of the Air Force with undisputed control over all Air Reserve Forces.
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By the end of 1964, the United States military forces in Southeast Asia had increased to about 23,000 personnel. As the number of United States combat forces in Southeast Asia was increased, so did their logistics requirements, and that was what drew in the Air Force Reserve C-124 units. Before
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Air Defense Command required fighter-bomber wings capable of supporting augmented tactical squadrons operating independently of the parent wing after mobilization and tactical squadrons capable of performing continuous air defense operations for indefinite periods. The command would also have to
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The entry of the Chinese into the war in November 1950, the resultant proclamation of a national emergency, and the accompanying military buildup early in 1951 required the Air Force to turn to its individual reserve resources again. Still desiring to preserve the effectiveness of existing units
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The necessity of a partial mobilization in July 1950 raised a number of perplexing problems which became more difficult as the war progressed through its first year. The fundamental problem centered around the fact that the Air Force, requiring a substantial augmentation of reserve manpower in a
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The Korean War gave a new emphasis to tactical air operations and resulted in the restoration of Tactical Air Command as a major air command on 1 December 1950 and relieved it from assignment to ConAC. TAC's mission would be to supply these tactical forces to FEAF and USAFE, and also be able to
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The Air Force Reserve unit program had never been restricted to flying units, and in the mid-1950s nonflying support units proliferated. July 1956 saw nine aerial port operations squadrons in existence. ConAC activated thirteen air terminal squadrons in October 1956 and organized ten Air Force
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Fifteen reserve wings were recalled on various dates between 10 March and 1 May and were inactivated at home stations after their personnel had been reassigned, the units being used as "Fillers" for active duty unit personnel and aircraft requirements. The breaking up of the reserve units upon
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fulfills state and some federal needs, it fails to satisfy others. In the first place, not every person in the United States with an obligation or desire for military service wants to serve in a state militia. Second, the legally prescribed nature and organization of the National Guard does not
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On 1 August 1968, the reorganization of the field management structure of the Air Force Reserve became effective. Headquarters Continental Air Command was discontinued at Robins AFB, Georgia. Replacing it was Headquarters AFRES, constituted and activated as a separate operating agency with the
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It made no sense to him to have two different reserve systems duplicating recruiting, pay, training, and other activities. He wanted to change the system, but because of the political uproar that erupted every time the active force talked about merger, LeMay asked the Air Reserve Forces Policy
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After the POWER PACK operations confirmed the capability of the Air Force Reserve C-119 units, MATS immediately requested their use on missions along the coasts of North and Central America. This freed MATS' own four-engine aircraft for direct support of the Southeast Asia requirement. At peak
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stated at the White House Executive Committee that additional reserve units were necessary to meet invasion plans and that it would also put some pressure on the Soviets. President Kennedy approved McNamara's recommendation to mobilize 24 Air Force Reserve troop carrier squadrons-about 14,000
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Headquarters Continental Air Command and its reserve troop carrier wings became involved in the Cuban crisis at 17:42 12 October, a typical Friday, about an hour after the headquarters' quitting time. Headquarters Tactical Air Command needed Air Force Reserve help to airlift cargo from as yet
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By August 1957, the Defense Department had instructed the Air Force to reduce its fiscal 1958 budget to $ 17.9 billion, nearly a billion less than the service had requested in April. ConAC's 24 Air Reserve wings never had their 72 authorized squadrons. In July 1957, they comprised 55 tactical
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The air defense mission, relegated to a secondary status in the postwar years, received much more attention as Cold War tensions heightened. Following the explosion of a Soviet nuclear weapon in August 1949, the Air Force issued requirements for an operational air defense system by 1952. The
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About the time the mobilized troop carrier wings came on active military service at 0900 the White House received a new message from Premier Khrushchev. Conciliatory in tone and accepting president Kennedy's terms, it promised removal of the missiles and verification of the fact by the United
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On 1 September 1962, the Soviet Union announced a new treaty of friendship with Cuba under which the island country was to receive Soviet arms and technicians "to resist the imperialists' 'threats". With a large segment of the U.S. press and many congressmen urging the administration to act,
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were convinced that the service required some kind of a reserve force in peacetime, although they had no clear concept of what the size and scope of such an effort should be. Consisting of duly appointed officers and enlisted personnel the Air Reserve was to be a federally controlled reserve
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To resolve this, in late 1962 and early 1963, ConAC reorganized the structure of its reserve Troop Carrier Wings by establishing fully deployable Troop Carrier Groups and inserting them into the chain of command between the Wing and its squadrons at every base that held a ConAC troop carrier
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and Tan Son Nhut AB, primarily to Tan Son Nhut AB. Thereafter, from January 1966 through November 1972, when the last C-124 left the reserve inventory, the Air Force Reserve C-124 crews on inactive duty flew 1,252 missions into Southeast Asia for the Military Air Transport Service and the
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The Air Force Reserve's aircrew training activities expanded when Headquarters USAF identified a requirement to train navigators to meet not only the Air Force's day-to-day needs, but also those of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. Starting in January 1955, a ConAC program offered refresher and
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January 1965, the reservists generally had not gone beyond Japan on transport missions for MATS, but in that month they were called upon to go farther. Late in the afternoon of 23 January 1965, MATS asked if the Air Force Reserve C-124 force could provide urgently needed airlift into
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and several Air Staff personnel and manpower officials on his proposal for organizing his office and the Air Force Reserve. The essential features of the option he recommended were that Headquarters Continental Air Command would be replaced at Robins AFB, Georgia, by Headquarters,
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Thus provided with an adequate framework of national policy and Department of Defense guidance, ConAC and the major air commands which would gain the Air Reserve Forces units and individuals upon mobilization began to develop the force into a combat-ready mobilization asset.
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For about a year beginning in January 1964, the Air Staff discussed the issue of merging the Air Force's two reserve components. Its considerations were stimulated in part by its own Chief of Staff and in part by related developments in the U.S. Army. For one thing, General
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training flights. Between September 1963 and April 1964, the reservists flew the Pacific missions on an irregular basis dictated by MATS changing requirements. With each unit flying about one trip per month, by April 1964 the five reserve groups had completed 22 missions to
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squadrons and another 17 to be activated at detached locations within the next 4 years. In face of reduced budgets, the Defense Department guidance made it perfectly clear they would never be available, and the Air Reserve Forces combined force of 96 units would be reduced.
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Lacking sufficient intelligence specialists, in May 1966 the Air Force used reservists on extended active or inactive duty tours to augment the intelligence function at the National Military Intelligence Center and MAC Indications and Warning Center on a continuing basis.
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Of all the Air Force Reserve troop carrier units, the five groups activated and assigned to the mobilized 435th and the 442d Troop Carrier Wings were the least prepared for active duty because they had just begun converting from C-119s to C-124s. The Air Force Reserve
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Members of the Retired Reserve could be ordered to active duty involuntarily only in time of war or national emergency declared by Congress or when otherwise authorized by law. All other reservists not on the Inactive Status List Retired would be placed in the Ready
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broke off diplomatic relations with the Castro government of Cuba, protesting against "a long series of harassments, baseless accusations, and vilification". On the night of 17 April, a force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles supported by the United States landed at the
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dispersing Reserve units over centers of population. Following the mobilizations in 1961 and 1962 for the Berlin Crisis and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Continental Air Command realized that it was unwieldy to mobilize an entire wing unless absolutely necessary.
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U.S. policy demanded the withdrawal of the missiles, the president declared that he would quarantine all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba. He directed the armed services to be prepared for any eventuality and reinforced the United States
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On 4 June 1951, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert formed a committee under the chairmanship of the Air Force Reserve's General Smith to examine the Air Reserve programs. General Smith was a reservist who had been associated with the
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Brigadier General Tomas E. Marchbanks, Jr became the first Chief of Air Force Reserve. The Senate confirmed his nomination as Chief and promotion to Major General on 16 February 1968. On 23 February, Marchbanks briefed Air Force Chief of Staff General
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Most Continental Air Command Reserve wings controlled two or three squadrons of aircraft. ConAC began transferring individual squadrons to installations located throughout the United States. Initially, the command detached troop carrier squadrons from
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ensure the training of the squadron as the basic Air Force unit, without the confusion of group and wing being superimposed upon squadrons; and the location of separate squadrons in smaller population centers would facilitate recruiting and manning.
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1946, inactivated unit designations were allotted and transferred to various State Air National Guard bureaus. As individual units were organized, they began obtaining federal recognition, and the state Air National Guard units were established.
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by sealing off the border between East and West Berlin, first with a fence and then with a concrete wall topped with barbed wire. Buildings along the border were also incorporated into the barrier by closing their apertures with bricks.
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veteran some protection against being mobilized before others who had not served; and it removed several inequities of treatment of reservists. It was the first legislation ever passed that pertained exclusively to the reserve forces.
3324:, additional C-124 Globemaster II aircraft were transferred to eight ConAC wings, replacing the C-123 Provider and C-119 Flying Boxcar tactical airlifters. This provided the command with additional intercontinental airlift capacity.
2304:. Relations between the new republic and the United States deteriorated due to Cuba "nationalizing" United States and foreign-owned businesses and seizing the property without compensation to the owners. On 3 January 1961, President
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the D-Day mission; provision of adequate facilities and full unit equipment; and supervision and inspection of training programs with an end toward reaching an acceptable degree of combat capability at the earliest practicable date.
2199:, attained combat readiness on 1 March 1962. Thereafter, the wing participated in a wide variety of missions and exercises directed by the Tactical Air Command, and it conducted extensive overwater training on flights to Hawaii,
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When units or persons from the reserve forces were ordered to active military service during a partial mobilization, military departments were to assure the continued organization and training of reserve forces not yet mobilized.
3403:(MAC), as the command was re-designated in January 1966. These were airlift missions MATS/MAC could not have otherwise conducted; they therefore comprised a significant Air Force Reserve contribution to the Air Force mission.
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The new mobilization requirement was for twenty-seven Air National Guard and twenty-four Air Force Reserve tactical wings. The latter included nine fighter-bomber, two tactical bombardment, and thirteen troop carrier units.
3712:, MD) Responsible for the training of all Air Force Reservists in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Inactivated 24 June 1966, merged into First Region.
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With the post-Korean War expansion of the Air Force, on 24 November 1954, the Joint Mid-Range War Plan identified a D-Day requirement for fifty-one Air Reserve Forces wings. This was approved on 4 January 1955 by General
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received from active duty units, and 5 air rescue squadrons equipped with SA-16s. At the end of fiscal year 1959, the Air Force Reserve flying force consisted of forty-five troop carrier and five air rescue squadrons.
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establishment of Headquarters Air Force Reserve the next day, and the appointment to command of the new organization and promotion to major general the next day of Brig. Gen. Rollin B. Moore, Jr. (second from right).
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Looking back over that fateful week, some officials are disposed to believe that the mobilization of 24 troop carrying squadrons finally persuaded Mr. Khrushchev that war would be inevitable if the missiles were not
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available for reserve pilots to fly four hours per month to train and maintain proficiency. ADC intended to activate forty base units operational by 1 July. The 468th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Reserve Training) at
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The Ready Reserve consisted of units or members who were liable for active duty in time of war, in time of national emergency declared by Congress or proclaimed by the president, or when otherwise authorized by
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procedural functions and responsibilities of a major command. The Air Reserve Personnel Center ceased functioning as an organizational element of Continental Air Command and became a separate operating agency.
3310:, Hawaii, for the airlift command. These trips, or missions, took about 8 days, home station to home station, during which the aircraft were in the air for slightly more than 75 hours and on the ground for 13.
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Thus motivated, Congress passed a series of laws in the first half of the 1950s to strengthen the reserve programs. President Truman approved H.R. 5426 as the Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952 on 9 July 1952.
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Standby Reserve could be ordered to active duty unless the appropriate service secretary determined that adequate numbers of the required types of units or individuals of the Ready Reserve were not available.
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Force Reserve troop carrier units as essential to the task, they responded quickly and were prepared to do their part. Then, individual crew members stayed on to help redeploy the assembled force. Seven
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The Air Force established the Office of the Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff for Reserve Forces in Headquarters USAF. It also reorganized its field structure for reserve matters, establishing the
3354:, the United States had tried to stabilize the existing governments and train its military forces to subdue internal guerrilla activity by the communist forces fighting to overthrow and replace them.
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By 22 August 1962, when the Air Force released the reservists it had mobilized in October 1961, a second crisis had arisen to involve other Air Force Reserve units. The focus of the new problem was
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An Air Force Reserve C-124 crew of the 349th Military Airlift Wing, Hamilton AFB, California, awaits clearance at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, to continue its cargo mission to Southeast Asia early in 1967.
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at Donaldson AFB, South Carolina, immediately assigning to it the Reserve 314th and 375th Troop Carrier Wings. As the reserve wings came on active duty, they too joined the Eighteenth Air Force.
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As the Air Force Reserve troop carrier units acquired proficiency, they began to participate in the relief of domestic emergencies. In August 1955, reserve aircrews delivered chlorinated lime to
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The reservists were to report to a base unit located in their area. The base unit furnished the personnel to operate the detachment and provided essential base services. ADC programmed to have
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One of the immediate needs of the Active Duty Air Force was to assemble a tactical airlift force. In June 1950, the United States could count three troop carrier wings: the Regular Air Force's
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strategic bomber led to the separation of Air Defense Command from ConAC, and its reestablishment as an Air Force major command, effective 1 January 1951 to counter the perceived Soviet threat.
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For one six-month period of its active duty tour, one of the reserve wings became something of a cold-weather outfit. In April 1952 the United States agreed to construct a weather station for
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Several major re-organizations occurred in Continental Air Command in the early 1960s. The first occurred on 1 September 1960 with the establishment of Air Reserve Regions to replace the
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The mobilization of Air Force Reserve troop carrier units played a part in persuading Premier Khrushchev that the United States was serious about getting those missiles out of Cuba. A
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Ordered to Active Service during Cuban Missile Crisis, 28 October-28 November 1962; 902d TCG inactivated in January 1966 with the closure of Grenier AFB; converted to C-124s in 1966
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providing training for the reserve crews, SWIFT LIFT moved considerable high-priority cargo for the Air Force, saving significant amounts in transportation and procurement dollars.
1030:, a location inaccessible except by air. Ironically, the southernmost of the reserve wings, the 435th of Miami, drew the assignment to airlift the materials to the north country.
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wanted troop carrier units capable of participating in mass maneuvers and joint exercises involving two or more troop carrier wings in support of other Air Force and Army units.
1200:. As General Twining often pointed out, airlift was one thing the Air Force needed on D-Day, and the thirteen Air Force Reserve wings would certainly add to the force's mobility.
3766:, MI) Responsible for the training of all Air Force Reservists in Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota
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Mobilized 434th Troop Carrier Wing passes in review prior to being mustered from active service at Bakalar AFB, Indiana, on 27 November 1962, following the Cuban missile crisis.
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during the Korean War took place, specifically authorized the president to order reservists to active duty as individuals or as members of units, with or without their consent.
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O'Connell, Charles F. (1987), First Fighter, A History of America's First Team, 1918–1983. Office of TAC History, Headquarters, Tactical Air Command, Langley AFB, Virginia.
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During the first six months of fiscal year 1965, as MATS' need for reserve augmentation continued, the Air Force Reserve C-124 groups flew another forty-one missions into
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provision of thirty flights in two months was considerable because the combined strength of the five Air Force Reserve C-124 groups involved was a mere twenty aircraft.
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on 1 December 1948, with headquarters at Mitchel AFB, New York. ConAC had responsibility for both Air Force Reserve as well as coordination with the state-controlled
2066:, Florida. In time, the detached squadron program proved successful in attracting additional participants to the Air Force Reserve and producing combat-ready units.
3572:(the successor to the Military Airlift Command), with personnel and aircraft routinely flying transcontinental airlift missions as associate units flying front-line
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troop carrier program, to the Air Force Reserve. The Air Force Reserve program had evolved into a concept and form that would carry it through the next ten years.
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The Air Force Reserve was affected by fundamental legislation pertaining to the parent Air Force. Even after the Unification Act of September 1947 established the
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Email communication, Air National Guard Lineage and History, Daniel L. Haulman, PhD, Chief, Organizational Histories Branch Air Force Historical Research Agency
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as president in 1959. The Castro government soon placed itself in the communist group of nations, pursued a social economic agenda and allied itself with the
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908th TCG transferred from 302d TCW, 18 March 1963; Ordered to Active Service 1 October 1961 for 1961 Berlin Crisis. Relieved from Active Duty 27 August 1962
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Mueller, Robert, Air Force Bases Volume I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982, Office of Air Force History, 1989
3784:, CA) Responsible for the training of all Air Force Reservists in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Oregon
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IRBM missiles from Turkey and offer a nonaggression pledge to Cuba. With invasion plans for Cuba already in the final planning stages, Secretary of Defense
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At its center, the law established Ready, Standby, and Retired Reserve categories within each reserve component to define liability for call to active duty.
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78th Fighter Group, Jet Republic F-84B Thunderjets at Hamilton AFB, 1949. Aircraft are (bottom to top) Republic F-84D-10-RE Thunderjet 48-678, 667, 680, 657
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Cantwell, Gerald (1987), Citizen Airmen, A History of the Air Force Reserve, 1946–1994. Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program: GPO, 1997
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training objectives that guided the summer training of the Air Force Reserve wings in 1955, 1956, and 1957 reflected the desires of the gaining commands.
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The Army Air Forces Air Reserve program was approved by the War Department in July 1946. Army Air Forces Base Units (reserve training) were organized by
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Ordered to Active Service during Cuban Missile Crisis, 28 October-28 November 1962. 929th TCG inactivated in July 1966 with the closure of Davis Field.
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now operates several different types of aircraft, not all of which are transports). Many of these units still exist and today are designated as Wings.
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for purifying the drinking water after an outbreak of typhoid fever, and in October reservists delivered tons of food and clothing to flood-stricken
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3730:, GA) Responsible for the training of all Air Force Reservists in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and North and South Carolina.
3475:, Cuba, among other locations. The C-119 support of this mission ended only when the aircraft left the Air Force Reserve inventory in March 1973.
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Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History.
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became combat-ready in January 1962. Its crews flew missions that took them to England, South America, Iceland, California, and points between.
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The 512th Troop Carrier Wing musters on 29 November 1962, at Willow Grove NAS, Pennsylvania, to demobilize following the Cuban missile crisis.
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In the summer of 1958, reserve units initiated Operation READY SWAP, an open-ended airlift in which they transported aircraft engines between
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3497:, who as Vice Chief of Staff in 1959 had advocated eliminating one of the two Air Reserve Forces and as Chief of Staff he revived the issue.
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Beginning in 1956 the Air Force Reserve flying unit program expanded to include air rescue squadrons equipped with the fixed-wing amphibious
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was relieved from active military service, and the other five were relieved at various times between 1 December 1952, and 1 February 1953.
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The 301st Air Rescue Squadron at Miami conducted the first reserve rescue in January 1957, recovering three airmen from the sea when two
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908th TCG transferred to 435th TCW, 18 March 1963; Ordered to Active Service during Cuban Missile Crisis, 28 October-28 November 1962
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These troop carrier groups have been re-designated several times since their establishment with changes in missions and aircraft (the
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2107:. The Reserve Regions were geographically based, each with a regional commander in control of units within its zone of operations.
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aircraft would be retired. The flying program would consist of 15 troop carrier wings comprising 45 squadrons, all equipped with
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For the first time, the Air Force Reserve possessed no trainer aircraft, and the units did all their flying in tactical aircraft:
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The Secretary of the Air Force approved the 1957–1961 reserve flying wing program on 20 September 1957. The World War II-era
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By the time John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961, the United States had become deeply involved in Southeast Asia. In
2144:. For fifteen years the western powers maintained a tenacious hold on West Berlin under periodic harassment of the Soviets.
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Ordered to Active Service on 10 August 1950; Combat in Korea 8 November 1950 – 10 June 1952*, Inactivated on 1 January 1953
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Troop Carrier Wings (944th, 302d, 349th, 403d, 434th, 440th and 512th), consisting of 20 squadrons were activated, and the
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Ordered to Active Service on 1 April 1951; Combat in Korea 14 April 1952 – 1 January 1953*, Inactivated on 1 January 1953
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on 17 February 1997 and status changed from a field operating agency to a major command of the United States Air Force.
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circumstance no planner had ever envisioned, needed individual replacements and augmentees, not entire organized units.
3748:, TX) Responsible for the training of all Air Force Reservists in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
1169:, USAF Chief of Staff. The contemporary Air Force Reserve of today began with General Twining's resultant statement:
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3694:, NY) Responsible for the training of all Air Force Reservists in the six New England states, New York and New Jersey
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Rogers, Brian (2005). United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978. Hinkley, England: Midland Publications.
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On 16 October, President Kennedy reviewed aerial photographs showing that the Soviet Union was installing offensive
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concept. The National Guard is the designated state militia by the Constitution of the United States. Although the
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2242:, Scotland, to reinforce coverage of the northern route; additionally, two crews deployed with their aircraft to
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SOUTHERN PINE in August 1951, Operation SNOWFALL in January–February 1952, and Exercise LONG HORN in March 1952.
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Ordered to Active Service on 15 October 1950; Trained units for deployment to Korea, Inactivated on 14 July 1952
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Ordered to Active Service during Cuban Missile Crisis, 28 October-28 November 1962; converted to C-124s in 1966
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the wing headquarters – despite the fact that many wings had squadrons spread out over several bases due to the
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Ordered to Active Service on 1 March 1951; Trained units for deployment to Korea, Inactivated on 1 January 1953
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Ordered to Active Service on 1 May 1951; Trained units for deployment to Korea, Inactivated on 11 February 1953
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vowed to "eradicate the splinter from the heart of Europe", but he also agreed to meet the new U.S. president,
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Ordered to Active Service on 1 May 1951; Trained units for deployment to Korea, Inactivated on 1 February 1953
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Ordered to Active Service on 1 May 1951; Trained units for deployment to Korea, Inactivated on 8 January 1953
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Ordered to Active Service on 1 April 1951; Trained units for deployment to Korea, Inactivated on 14 July 1952
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Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, AL: Office of Air Force History.
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Ordered to Active Service 1 October 1961 for 1961 Berlin Crisis. Relieved from Active Duty 27 August 1962
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Lockheed F-80C-10-LO Shooting Star 49-696, currently at the National Museum of the United States Air Force
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Continental Air Command was later disestablished on 21 September 1984. AFRES was later redesignated the
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units to begin flying missions on the intercontinental Trans-Pacific transport routes in September 1963.
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aircraft flew 1,232 hours that weekend carrying materiel from across the United States into
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Ordered to Active Service on 10 March 1951 as a filler unit; Inactivated on 15 March 1951
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Ordered to Active Service on 17 March 1951 as a filler unit; Inactivated on 21 March 1951
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Ordered to Active Service on 10 March 1951 as a filler unit; Inactivated on 17 March 1951
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Ordered to Active Service on 10 March 1951 as a filler unit; Inactivated on 1 April 1951
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in June 1950, it was necessary to deploy large numbers of tactical aircraft to Japan and
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had built up, so expenditure was cut, resulting in relatively little money for the new
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periods during 1966 and 1967, Reserve C-119s flew 16 offshore missions weekly-from
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Ordered to Active Service during Cuban Missile Crisis, 28 October-28 November 1962
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Ordered to Active Service during Cuban Missile Crisis, 28 October-28 November 1962
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refine its interceptor techniques and perform realistic interceptor exercises.
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matched against specific wartime requirements, and trained in specific skills.
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Eighteenth Air Force was established and activated in March 1951 to discharge
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aircraft. ConAC activated the following squadrons between 1956 and 1958.
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wings were identified for mobilization in January 1951. On 28 March 1951,
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provide for service as individuals; the guard consists of units only.
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with which these difficulties have been borne, I am deeply grateful.
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4290:(reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.
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4305:
4037:
Cantwell 1987, Chapter 3, Development of a New program 1948–1949
3773:
Sixth Air Force Reserve Region: 1 September 1960 – 1 August 1968
3755:
Fifth Air Force Reserve Region: 1 September 1960 – 1 August 1968
3719:
Third Air Force Reserve Region: 1 September 1960 – 1 August 1968
3701:
Second Air Force Reserve Region: 1 September 1960 – 24 June 1966
3683:
First Air Force Reserve Region: 1 September 1960 – 1 August 1968
1844:. Tactical Bombardment and Troop Carrier Wings were aligned to
3376:
2373:
2208:
2125:
3580:
transports worldwide in support of the active duty Air Force.
365:
3846:
2029:
units as part of the Air Defense Command's defense network.
78:
Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve command and control
3351:
2293:
1916:
361:
353:
1139:
4245:
Cantwell 1987, Chapter 7, Return on Investment, 1961–1965
3285:
2069:
211:
to conduct some form of reserve training on their bases.
3504:
On the morning of 28 October 1964, Secretary of Defense
1143:
Republic F-84E-1-RE Thunderjets (49-2039 in foreground)
905:
Curtiss C-46D Commando on a South Korean airstrip, 1952
371:
241:
194:
4475:
Military units and formations disestablished in 1984
2424:
assault squadrons were activated during the crisis.
1851:
1212:
2427:
120:(USAF) responsible primarily for administering the
3553:, Maryland, with assignment directly to the USAF.
2098:
1040:
3972:
3970:
3968:
3966:
3964:
3962:
3960:
3958:
3956:
3954:
3952:
3950:
3948:
3946:
3944:
3942:
3940:
3938:
3936:
3934:
3932:
3930:
3928:
3926:
3924:
3922:
3920:
3918:
3916:
3914:
3912:
3910:
3908:
3906:
3904:
3902:
3900:
3898:
3896:
3894:
3892:
3890:
3888:
896:
4451:
3886:
3884:
3882:
3880:
3878:
3876:
3874:
3872:
3870:
3868:
2234:Four crews and SA-16 aircraft were stationed at
1998:dropped troops during a joint maneuver with the
1977:, and no flying safety incidents were incurred.
1153:would provide a balanced reserve force by 1958.
1003:, Texas, all came onto active service on 1 May.
940:To fill the airlift void, six Air Force Reserve
4284:Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II
4047:
4045:
4043:
1126:
1076:
4280:
3568:Today, USAF Reserve support continues for the
3425:boiled over into active revolution, President
3421:In April 1965, when a political crisis in the
2434:
4470:Major commands of the United States Air Force
4445:United States Army Center of Military History
4089:Cantwell 1987, Chapter 4, Korea and Expansion
3865:
2357:the southeast and flew priority missions for
4370:
4368:
4366:
4364:
4362:
4360:
4350:
4348:
4346:
4344:
4342:
4340:
4241:
4239:
4237:
4235:
4233:
4231:
4229:
4227:
4225:
4223:
4221:
4219:
4217:
4215:
4213:
4211:
4209:
4207:
4205:
4175:
4173:
4171:
4169:
4167:
4165:
4163:
4161:
4131:
4129:
4127:
4125:
4123:
4121:
4119:
4117:
4115:
4085:
4083:
4081:
4079:
4077:
4040:
2249:
2180:extended active duty for the Berlin Crisis.
2032:
1470:Re-designated 445th TCW on 6 September 1957
1446:Re-designated 440th TCW on 8 September 1957
1371:Re-designated 349th TCW on 1 September 1957
352:. In addition, the need to support the new
4203:
4201:
4199:
4197:
4195:
4193:
4191:
4189:
4187:
4185:
4159:
4157:
4155:
4153:
4151:
4149:
4147:
4145:
4143:
4141:
4113:
4111:
4109:
4107:
4105:
4103:
4101:
4099:
4097:
4095:
4075:
4073:
4071:
4069:
4067:
4065:
4063:
4061:
4059:
4057:
4033:
4031:
4029:
4000:
3998:
3996:
3994:
3992:
3990:
1942:
324:North American air defense battle was won.
3334:Indochina Wars § Second Indochina War
1895:, Long Beach Municipal Airport, California
178:This was fundamentally different from the
4357:
4337:
1868:Convair T-29 Navigational trainer 49-1941
4460:1948 establishments in the United States
4399:
4397:
4395:
4393:
4391:
4389:
4182:
4138:
4092:
4054:
4026:
3987:
3482:
3337:
2283:
2275:
2267:
2259:
2165:
1901:, Portland International Airport, Oregon
1863:
1855:
1840:. Fighter-Bomber Wings were aligned to
1564:Greater Pittsburgh Airport, Pennsylvania
1138:
1130:
1080:
908:
900:
262:
254:
4465:Government agencies established in 1948
3805:, Georgia, 1 April 1961 – 1 August 1968
3433:
3410:
1006:
4452:
4434:The Continental Air Defense Collection
3286:Military Air Transport Service Support
2376:if the United States would remove its
2070:1957 Realignment and Budget Reductions
1883:, Miami International Airport, Florida
4386:
4012:
4010:
3545:was reassigned on 10 May 1979 to the
3383:was en route to Tan Son Nhut AB from
2346:Intermediate-range ballistic missiles
2110:
284:organizations. At the same time, the
3847:Air Force Historical Research Agency
3662:*, 1 December 1948 – 1 December 1950
3656:, 1 December 1948 – 1 September 1960
3650:*, 1 December 1948 – 1 December 1950
2400:editorial of 23 December, declared:
561:Greater Pittsburgh APT, Pennsylvania
372:Reserve Unit Structure, 25 June 1950
3625:, 1 December 1948 – 1 December 1950
3601:Disestablished on 21 September 1984
3593:, and organized, on 1 December 1948
3379:. Twenty days later a C-124 of the
2296:, where a revolution had installed
1785:New Castle County Airport, Delaware
242:Post World War II Air Force Reserve
195:Army Air Forces Air Reserve program
16:Former U.S. Air Force major command
13:
4007:
1438:Minneapolis-St Paul IAP, Minnesota
1193:and later a tactical fighter role.
94:Mitchell AFB, New York (1948–1961)
14:
4486:
4427:
3547:Air National Guard Support Center
3508:asked Secretary of the Air Force
3327:
2147:On 6 January 1961 Soviet Premier
1852:Additional expansion in the 1950s
1672:NAS Floyd Bennett Field, New York
1273:452d Tactical Reconnaissance Wing
1240:94th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing
1213:Air Force Reserve, September 1955
3841: This article incorporates
3836:
3816:List of Air National Guard units
3644:, December 1948-1 September 1960
3638:, 1 December 1948 – 23 June 1958
2428:1963 Reserve Wing Reorganization
1860:Grumman SA-16B Albatross 51-7255
278:Continental Air Command (ConAC)
29:
4377:
4320:
4274:
4257:
4248:
3668:, 1 December 1948 – 1 July 1968
3619:, 1 December 1948 – 1 July 1950
3478:
3089:Second Air Force Reserve Region
3042:Second Air Force Reserve Region
2945:Fourth Air Force Reserve Region
2671:Fourth Air Force Reserve Region
2571:Fourth Air Force Reserve Region
2524:Second Air Force Reserve Region
2099:Berlin and Cuban Missile Crisis
1387:Billy Mitchell Field, Wisconsin
1041:Reserve individual augmentation
925:, Tennessee, and the mobilized
751:Wold-Chamberlain MAP, Minnesota
96:Robins AFB, Georgia (1961–1968)
3292:Military Air Transport Service
3265:Fifth Air Force Reserve Region
3244:Sixth Air Force Reserve Region
3223:Sixth Air Force Reserve Region
3202:Sixth Air Force Reserve Region
3181:Third Air Force Reserve Region
3134:First Air Force Reserve Region
2987:Sixth Air Force Reserve Region
2898:Third Air Force Reserve Region
2853:Fifth Air Force Reserve Region
2816:Fifth Air Force Reserve Region
2761:Third Air Force Reserve Region
2716:Fifth Air Force Reserve Region
2626:Fifth Air Force Reserve Region
2485:First Air Force Reserve Region
2453:
1287:Long Beach Airport, California
1218:
897:Air Force Reserve Mobilization
770:Chicago Orchard APT, Minnesota
425:Philadelphia IAP, Pennsylvania
377:
35:Continental Air Command emblem
1:
4281:Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) .
3831:
3605:
3598:Discontinued on 1 August 1968
2353:on the southern tip of Cuba.
2188:received its first C-124A at
2132:territory, controlled by the
1700:Inactivated 16 November 1957
1524:Inactivated 16 November 1957
1497:Inactivated 16 November 1957
1422:Inactivated 16 November 1957
1395:Inactivated 16 November 1957
1344:Inactivated 16 November 1957
1320:Inactivated 16 November 1957
1026:a few hundred miles from the
694:Chicago Orchard APT, Illinois
327:
3563:
3463:, West Indies; and from the
3169:Converted to C-124s in 1965
3077:Converted to C-124s in 1966
3030:Converted to C-124s in 1966
1127:Post Korea Air Force Reserve
1077:1950s Reserve Forces Reforms
7:
3809:
3799:, New York, 1 December 1948
3790:
3673:* Tactical Air Command NAFs
3281:References for above table:
2451:
2385:reservists and 300 planes.
2359:Air Force Logistics Command
2186:77th Troop Carrier Squadron
1462:Niagara Falls MAP, New York
1216:
1119:he had to report for duty.
375:
10:
4491:
3583:
3414:
3331:
3256:
3235:
3214:
3193:
3172:
3125:
3080:
3033:
2978:
2936:
2889:
2844:
2835:Minneapolis-St Paul IAP MN
2807:
2752:
2707:
2662:
2617:
2562:
2515:
2476:
2335:Key West Naval Air Station
2253:
2114:
1915:collided off the coast of
1793:
1772:
1748:
1724:
1703:
1681:
1659:
1638:
1617:
1593:
1572:
1551:
1527:
1500:
1473:
1449:
1425:
1398:
1374:
1347:
1323:
1296:
1271:
1238:
855:
836:
817:
798:
779:
760:
741:
722:
703:
684:
665:
646:
627:
608:
589:
570:
551:
532:
523:Hanscom Apt, Massachusetts
513:
504:Floyd Bennet NAS, New York
494:
485:Long Beach MAP, California
474:
465:Long Beach MAP, California
454:
434:
414:
394:
146:
141:
3821:Air Force Reserve Command
3558:Air Force Reserve Command
3381:935th Troop Carrier Group
3259:305th Air Rescue Squadron
3238:304th Air Rescue Squadron
3175:301st Air Rescue Squadron
2469:
2466:
2457:
2454:
2447:Air Force Reserve Command
2435:Detached Squadron Concept
2363:Air Force Systems Command
2351:Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
2272:Fairchild C-123B Provider
2250:1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
2033:Detached Squadron Concept
2019:Memphis Municipal Airport
2015:319th Fighter-Bomber Wing
1939:hospitals in April 1957.
1907:, Selfridge AFB, Michigan
1905:305th Air Rescue Squadron
1899:304th Air Rescue Squadron
1881:301st Air Rescue Squadron
1476:448th Fighter-Bomber Wing
1452:445th Fighter-Bomber Wing
1428:440th Fighter-Bomber Wing
1401:439th Fighter-Bomber Wing
1377:438th Fighter-Bomber Wing
1350:349th Fighter-Bomber Wing
1326:319th Fighter-Bomber Wing
1231:
1228:
1222:
1219:
1156:The plan provided for 27
827:Reading MAP, Pennsylvania
387:
381:
378:
332:With the outbreak of the
229:Memphis Municipal Airport
167:to modernize its forces.
90:
82:
74:
66:
56:
48:
40:
28:
23:
3401:Military Airlift Command
3315:Military Airlift Command
3217:303d Air Rescue Squadron
3196:302d Air Rescue Squadron
3128:514th Troop Carrier Wing
3083:512th Troop Carrier Wing
3036:459th Troop Carrier Wing
2939:446th Troop Carrier Wing
2892:445th Troop Carrier Wing
2810:440th Troop Carrier Wing
2755:435th Troop Carrier Wing
2710:434th Troop Carrier Wing
2565:349th Troop Carrier Wing
2463:
2460:
2418:445th Troop Carrier Wing
2238:, Labrador, and four at
2216:435th Troop Carrier Wing
1993:514th Troop Carrier Wing
1943:Activities and Exercises
1893:303d Air Rescue Squadron
1887:302d Air Rescue Squadron
1796:514th Troop Carrier Wing
1775:512th Troop Carrier Wing
1751:459th Troop Carrier Wing
1727:446th Troop Carrier Wing
1684:437th Troop Carrier Wing
1678:Inactivated 15 May 1958
1662:436th Troop Carrier Wing
1641:434th Troop Carrier Wing
1620:434th Troop Carrier Wing
1554:375th Troop Carrier Wing
1503:482d Fighter-Bomber Wing
1299:89th Fighter-Bomber Wing
1035:375th Troop Carrier Wing
989:514th Troop Carrier Wing
981:434th Troop Carrier Wing
973:516th Troop Carrier Wing
957:435th Troop Carrier Wing
919:314th Troop Carrier Wing
889:437th Troop Carrier Wing
858:516th Troop Carrier Wing
839:514th Troop Carrier Wing
820:512th Troop Carrier Wing
763:441st Troop Carrier Wing
744:440th Troop Carrier Wing
725:439th Troop Carrier Wing
706:438th Troop Carrier Wing
687:437th Troop Carrier Wing
668:436th Troop Carrier Wing
649:435th Troop Carrier Wing
630:434th Troop Carrier Wing
592:419th Troop Carrier Wing
554:375th Troop Carrier Wing
542:Hamilton AFB, California
535:349th Troop Carrier Wing
3591:Continental Air Command
2981:452d Troop Carrier Wing
2847:442d Troop Carrier Wing
2833:Billy Mitchell Field WI
2813:Billy Mitchell Field WI
2665:433d Troop Carrier Wing
2620:403d Troop Carrier Wing
2518:302d Troop Carrier Wing
2479:94th Troop Carrier Wing
2197:442d Troop Carrier Wing
2058:, Washington; and from
1889:, Williams AFB, Arizona
1874:Grumman HU-16 Albatross
1716:Grandview AFB, Missouri
1706:442d Troop Carrier Wing
1596:433d Troop Carrier Wing
1575:403d Troop Carrier Wing
1530:302d Troop Carrier Wing
1167:Nathan Farragut Twining
997:443d Troop Carrier Wing
965:403d Troop Carrier Wing
885:403d Troop Carrier Wing
846:Birmingham MAP, Alabama
801:443d Troop Carrier Wing
782:442d Troop Carrier Wing
732:Selfridge AFB, Michigan
611:433d Troop Carrier Wing
573:403d Troop Carrier Wing
516:89th Troop Carrier Wing
236:United States Air Force
165:United States Air Force
118:United States Air Force
106:Continental Air Command
86:United States Air Force
61:United States Air Force
24:Continental Air Command
3843:public domain material
3797:Mitchel Air Force Base
3489:
3449:Argentia, Newfoundland
3343:
2878:Richards-Gebaur AFB MO
2876:Richards-Gebaur AFB MO
2850:Richards-Gebaur AFB MO
2521:Clinton County AFB, OH
2289:
2281:
2273:
2265:
2171:
2128:100 miles deep within
1965:, in the aftermath of
1933:T-29 Flying Classrooms
1869:
1861:
1336:Memphis IAP, Tennessee
1144:
1136:
1086:
914:
906:
865:Memphis MAP, Tennessee
637:Atterbury AFB, Indiana
497:63d Troop Carrier Wing
457:448th Bombardment Wing
417:319th Bombardment Wing
268:
260:
3803:Robins Air Force Base
3486:
3373:Tan Son Nhut Air Base
3341:
2551:Clinton County AFB OH
2549:Clinton County AFB OH
2547:Clinton County AFB OH
2287:
2279:
2271:
2264:C-119 "Flying Boxcar"
2263:
2169:
2124:had left the city of
2117:Berlin Crisis of 1961
2000:82d Airborne Division
1867:
1859:
1489:/Hensley Field, Texas
1276:452d Bombardment Wing
1243:94th Bombardment Wing
1142:
1134:
1084:
1033:On 14 July 1952, the
912:
904:
881:452d Bombardment Wing
789:Fairfax Field, Kansas
477:452d Bombardment Wing
445:Tinker AFB, Oklaholma
437:323d Bombardment Wing
405:Marietta AFB, Georgia
397:94th Bombardment Wing
306:Fourteenth Air Forces
266:
258:
205:Strategic Air Command
157:Truman Administration
3666:Fourteenth Air Force
3623:Tactical Air Command
3574:C-17 Globemaster III
3570:Air Mobility Command
3541:Jurisdiction of the
3434:Caribbean Operations
3411:Operation Power Pack
3296:C-124 Globemaster II
3166:C-124 Globemaster II
3116:Niagara Falls IAP NY
3114:Willow Grove NAS, PA
3112:Willow Grove NAS, PA
3086:Willow Grove NAS, PA
3074:C-124 Globemaster II
3027:C-124 Globemaster II
2975:C-119 Flying Boxcar
2930:C-124 Globemaster II
2883:C-124 Globemaster II
2801:C-124 Globemaster II
2611:C-124 Globemaster II
2509:C-124 Globemaster II
2306:Dwight D. Eisenhower
2256:Cuban Missile Crisis
2177:C-124 Globemaster II
2170:C-124 Globemaster II
2088:C-119 Flying Boxcars
2013:On 1 July 1956, the
1996:C-119 Flying Boxcars
1991:In August 1954, the
1986:Air Materiel Command
1952:Tactical Air Command
1846:Tactical Air Command
1731:Fourteenth Air Force
1694:O’Hare IAP, Illinois
1645:Fourteenth Air Force
1630:Bakalar AFB, Indiana
1600:Fourteenth Air Force
1585:Portland IAP, Oregon
1507:Fourteenth Air Force
1480:Fourteenth Air Force
1330:Fourteenth Air Force
1198:Tactical Air Command
1150:Air Training Command
1013:Tactical Air Command
1007:Eighteenth Air Force
995:, New York, and the
950:Eighteenth Air Force
946:Tactical Air Command
862:Fourteenth Air Force
808:Hensley Field, Texas
805:Fourteenth Air Force
713:Offutt AFB, Nebraska
675:Godman AFB, Kentucky
653:Fourteenth Air Force
580:Portland MAP, Oregon
442:Fourteenth Air Force
422:Fourteenth Air Force
402:Fourteenth Air Force
364:copy of the B-29 or
290:Tactical Air Command
209:Tactical Air Command
112:) (1948–1968) was a
4439:9 June 2019 at the
3617:Air Defense Command
3417:Dominican Civil War
3385:Richards-Gebaur AFB
3317:on 1 January 1966.
3164:C-119 Flying Boxcar
3119:C-119 Flying Boxcar
3072:C-119 Flying Boxcar
3025:C-119 Flying Boxcar
2838:C-119 Flying Boxcar
2799:C-119 Flying Boxcar
2746:C-119 Flying Boxcar
2701:C-119 Flying Boxcar
2656:C-119 Flying Boxcar
2609:C-119 Flying Boxcar
2554:C-119 Flying Boxcar
2507:C-119 Flying Boxcar
2414:C-119 Flying Boxcar
2367:Air Defense Command
2331:C-119 Flying Boxcar
2136:, and divided into
2105:Numbered Air Forces
1842:Air Defense Command
1838:C-119 Flying Boxcar
1812:C-119 Flying Boxcar
1519:F-80C Shooting Star
1492:F-80C Shooting Star
1465:F-80C Shooting Star
1441:F-80C Shooting Star
1417:F-80C Shooting Star
1390:F-80C Shooting Star
1366:F-80C Shooting Star
1339:F-80C Shooting Star
1315:F-80C Shooting Star
1191:Air Defense Command
618:Cleveland MAP, Ohio
599:Scott AFB, Illinois
286:Air Defense Command
201:Air Defense Command
3543:Air National Guard
3490:
3471:, Puerto Rico and
3465:Norfolk Naval Base
3423:Dominican Republic
3344:
3306:, Japan and 19 to
2972:NAS New Orleans LA
2290:
2282:
2274:
2266:
2172:
2111:1961 Berlin Crisis
2027:Air National Guard
1935:became available.
1870:
1862:
1826:F-80 Shooting Star
1651:Miami IAP, Florida
1541:Clinton County AFB
1158:Air National Guard
1145:
1137:
1087:
971:, Oregon, and the
937:, South Carolina.
915:
907:
656:Miami IAP, Florida
314:Twelfth Air Forces
282:Air National Guard
269:
261:
251:for ConAC History.
249:Air National Guard
184:Air National Guard
122:Air National Guard
3674:
3660:Twelfth Air Force
3528:Air Force Reserve
3523:John P. McConnell
3510:Eugene M. Zuckert
3427:Lyndon B. Johnson
3360:Communist Chinese
3322:C-141A Starlifter
3282:
3278:
3277:
3069:Pittsburgh IAP PA
3067:Youngstown MAP OH
2623:Selfridge AFB, MI
2240:Prestwick Airport
2149:Nikita Khrushchev
2050:, Virginia; from
2023:20th Air Division
1818:
1817:
933:reserve wings at
875:
874:
170:Officials of the
151:After the end of
126:Air Force Reserve
100:
99:
4482:
4421:
4420:
4418:
4416:
4407:. Archived from
4401:
4384:
4381:
4375:
4372:
4355:
4352:
4335:
4324:
4318:
4317:
4289:
4278:
4272:
4261:
4255:
4252:
4246:
4243:
4180:
4177:
4136:
4133:
4090:
4087:
4052:
4049:
4038:
4035:
4024:
4014:
4005:
4002:
3985:
3974:
3840:
3839:
3672:
3642:Fourth Air Force
3313:MATS became the
3280:
3274:SA-16A Albatros
3262:Selfridge AFB MI
3253:SA-16A Albatros
3232:SA-16A Albatros
3211:SA-16A Albatros
3190:SA-16A Albatros
3161:Bradley Field CT
2970:Ellington AFB TX
2968:Ellington AFB TX
2942:Ellington AFB TX
2796:Barksdale AFB LA
2794:Donaldson AFB SC
2792:Homestead AFB FL
2758:Homestead AFB FL
2739:Atterbury AFB IN
2713:Atterbury AFB IN
2649:Selfridge AFB MI
2604:McClellan AFB CA
2568:Hamilton AFB, CA
2452:
1967:Hurricane Janice
1579:Fourth Air Force
1521:F-84E Thunderjet
1494:F-84E Thunderjet
1467:F-84E Thunderjet
1443:F-84E Thunderjet
1419:F-84E Thunderjet
1392:F-84E Thunderjet
1368:F-84E Thunderjet
1354:Fourth Air Force
1341:F-84E Thunderjet
1317:F-84E Thunderjet
1281:Fourth Air Force
1217:
577:Fourth Air Force
539:Fourth Air Force
482:Fourth Air Force
462:Fourth Air Force
376:
33:
21:
20:
4490:
4489:
4485:
4484:
4483:
4481:
4480:
4479:
4450:
4449:
4441:Wayback Machine
4430:
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4249:
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4041:
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3988:
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3834:
3826:First Air Force
3812:
3793:
3654:Tenth Air Force
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3782:Hamilton AFB
3746:Randolph AFB
3677:
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3519:
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3491:
3479:Inactivation
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3396:Tachikawa AB
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3220:March AFB CA
3178:Miami IAP FL
3020:March AFB CA
3018:March AFB CA
3016:March AFB CA
2743:Scott AFB IL
2696:Kelly AFB TX
2694:Kelly AFB TX
2668:Kelly AFB TX
2606:Paine AFB WA
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2298:Fidel Castro
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2194:
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2146:
2134:Soviet Union
2122:World War II
2120:
2102:
2093:
2080:B-26 Invader
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2052:Portland IAP
2040:
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1971:
1956:
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1937:
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1822:B-26 Invader
1819:
1803:1 April 1953
1782:14 June 1952
1713:15 June 1952
1691:15 June 1952
1561:14 July 1952
1537:14 June 1952
1459:24 June 1952
1435:15 June 1952
1408:15 June 1952
1384:15 June 1952
1363:, California
1361:Hamilton AFB
1357:13 June 1952
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83:Part of
18:
3728:Dobbins AFB
3710:Andrews AFB
3692:Stewart AFB
3551:Andrews AFB
3453:Patrick AFB
3199:Luke AFB AZ
3022:Hill AFB UT
2458:Assignment
2311:Bay of Pigs
2142:West Berlin
2130:East German
2064:Orlando AFB
2044:Andrews AFB
1959:New England
1807:Mitchel AFB
1762:Andrews AFB
1734:25 May 1955
1669:18 May 1955
1603:18 May 1955
1514:Dobbins AFB
1510:18 May 1955
1333:18 May 1955
1306:14 Jun 1952
1284:6 June 1952
1255:Dobbins AFB
1251:26 May 1952
1223:Assignment
993:Mitchel AFB
977:Memphis MAP
382:Assignment
338:South Korea
216:AT-6 Texans
131:During the
91:Garrison/HQ
4454:Categories
4415:28 January
3832:References
3630:Air Forces
3606:Components
3578:C-5 Galaxy
3457:Grand Turk
3308:Hickam AFB
2467:Locations
2464:Squadrons
2317:President
2207:, and the
2048:Byrd Field
2025:, joining
2004:Fort Bragg
1809:, New York
1764:, Maryland
1607:Brooks AFB
1487:NAS Dallas
1414:, Michigan
1278:, Tactical
1262:, Illinois
1245:, Tactical
1226:Activated
1028:North Pole
923:Sewart AFB
479:, Tactical
334:Korean War
328:Korean War
133:Korean War
3564:Successor
3469:Ramey AFB
3441:Dover AFB
3363:provide.
3290:When the
3154:337th TCS
3152:336th TCS
3150:335th TCS
3146:905th TCG
3142:904th TCG
3109:328th TCS
3107:327th TCS
3105:326th TCS
3101:914th TCG
3097:913th TCG
3093:912th TCG
3062:758th TCS
3060:757th TCS
3058:756th TCS
3054:911th TCG
3050:910th TCG
3046:909th TCG
3011:730th TCG
3009:729th TCS
3007:728th TCS
3003:945th TCG
2999:944th TCG
2965:706th TCS
2963:705th TCS
2961:704th TCS
2957:926th TCG
2953:925th TCG
2949:924th TCG
2916:701st TCS
2914:700th TCS
2910:920th TCG
2906:919th TCG
2902:918th TCG
2873:305th TCS
2871:304th TCS
2865:937th TCG
2861:936th TCG
2857:935th TCG
2824:934th TCG
2781:357th TCS
2777:917th TCG
2773:916th TCG
2769:915th TCG
2765:908th TCG
2724:931st TCG
2720:930th TCG
2675:921st TCG
2638:929th TCG
2634:928th TCG
2630:927th TCG
2595:314th TCG
2593:313th TCS
2591:312th TCS
2587:941st TCG
2583:940th TCG
2579:939th TCG
2575:938th TCG
2544:357th TCS
2542:356th TCS
2540:355th TCS
2536:908th TCG
2532:907th TCG
2528:906th TCG
2497:731st TCS
2489:901st TCG
2473:Comments
2470:Aircraft
2420:of three
2406:withdrawn
2244:Eglin AFB
2236:Goose AFB
2060:Miami IAP
2056:Paine AFB
1516:, Georgia
1260:Scott AFB
1257:, Georgia
1235:Comments
1232:Aircraft
1229:Location
961:Miami IAP
391:Comments
388:Aircraft
385:Location
44:1948–1968
4437:Archived
4306:70605402
3810:See also
3791:Stations
3611:Agencies
3138:903d TCG
3013:733d TCS
2995:943d TCG
2991:942d TCG
2918:702d TCS
2869:303d TCS
2830:96th TCS
2828:95th TCS
2820:933d TCG
2787:78th TCS
2785:77th TCS
2783:76th TCS
2732:71st TCS
2728:932d TCG
2691:69th TCS
2689:68th TCS
2687:67th TCS
2683:923d TCG
2679:922d TCG
2646:65th TCS
2644:64th TCS
2597:97th TCS
2499:732d TCS
2493:902d TCG
1988:depots.
1114:Reserve.
348:and the
288:and the
4443:at the
3678:Regions
3584:Lineage
3461:Antigua
3451:; from
3375:, near
2736:73d TCS
2734:72d TCS
2642:63d TCS
2461:Groups
2205:Bermuda
1740:, Texas
1609:, Texas
1024:Denmark
459:, Light
439:, Light
419:, Light
399:, Light
308:. The
161:deficit
147:Origins
142:History
116:of the
49:Country
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3377:Saigon
2374:Turkey
2365:, and
2209:Azores
2138:Soviet
2126:Berlin
1836:, and
1543:, Ohio
887:, and
298:Fourth
155:, the
57:Branch
41:Active
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4328:ISBN
4310:OCLC
4302:LCCN
4292:ISBN
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